Just been informed that I will be paid for the queens funeral but not have to work!
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Something going on in Parliament - RIP QE2
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostQuite interesting to have the news coverage on in the background. What an incredibly weird thing it must be for Charles and the kids to be processing in this way, and all the other pomp and ceremony that is happening. Seeing it live brings it home a bit more.
"A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George OrwellComment
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Originally posted by Paddy View Post
I'd give him a break (although I'd not give him a break for his off-shoring of businesses to avoid tax)…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post
He's just lost his mother, which is a stressful time for anyone. He's got a brother that has questionable sexual practices and a son(?) whose wife is either the personification of evil or trying to do the right thing (or maybe somewhere in-between, but that doesn't sell papers).
I'd give him a break (although I'd not give him a break for his off-shoring of businesses to avoid tax)Comment
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostOriginally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post
He's just lost his mother, which is a stressful time for anyone. He's got a brother that has questionable sexual practices and a son(?) whose wife is either the personification of evil or trying to do the right thing (or maybe somewhere in-between, but that doesn't sell papers).
I'd give him a break (although I'd not give him a break for his off-shoring of businesses to avoid tax)Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
I was thinking I'm very glad I didn't have to do any of that when my parents died... really in at the deep end schedule-wise with huge crowds of public and media albeit being respectful but still. Of course he's not new to this and has been preparing for it for years but I was struck that he had to jet back to London to start the rigmarole and make a public speech while his mum was still warm.Comment
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Originally posted by WTFH View Post
He's just lost his mother, which is a stressful time for anyone. He's got a brother that has questionable sexual practices and a son(?) whose wife is either the personification of evil or trying to do the right thing (or maybe somewhere in-between, but that doesn't sell papers).
I'd give him a break (although I'd not give him a break for his off-shoring of businesses to avoid tax)Old Greg - In search of acceptance since Mar 2007. Hoping each leap will be his last.Comment
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Originally posted by TheDude View Post
Shipping your kids off to boarding school is not warm mothering.
A friend of HWMBOs who lives in Oz sent her son to boarding school because where they live the round trip to drop off / collect every day would take hours. I would never say she wasn't a warm mother.Comment
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Originally posted by TheDude View Post
Shipping your kids off to boarding school is not warm mothering.
Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostFeel free to create a separate thread about how awful Queen Elizabeth was and the Royal Family in general is. But no more of that here.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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